Transport minister actually doing some good?!?

[Dell'Orto]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,375 ... 60,00.html


So finally, after god knows how many years of cars being pinched due to the ease of access to owners details - they're finally going to restrict it!

[BlakJak]

About bloody time.

[Adamal]

Good call. They should have steps to giving out that sort of information. Like for a hit and run, provide like a valid drivers license and some form of evidence of damage to your car. Something like that

[filbit]

just playing devils advocate here but...

Do people actually know anyone who has had their car stolen because of this public access to the database?

[wde_bdy]

just playing devils advocate here but...

Do people actually know anyone who has had their car stolen because of this public access to the database?

Not directly, heard a lot of stories. BUT I have got marketing shit to the relatives street address I use since I have a PO Box listed. Pissed me off big time, the database is there to keep track of car ownership NOT to sell me shit I don't want or need.

Callum

[neo]

I've had a group of people arrive at my door step after an 'incident' on the road. 'Apparently the cops gave them my address', yeah thats likely after I filed the accident report!

Needless to say, Corollas are stornger than CRX's.

[escortman]

is this about the vtnz background check thing

[Emz]

I think its a great idea to restrict the info available to the public. A while ago my boyfriends psycho ex-girlfriend did a rego search on my plates when she saw my car at his house and got all my details then used them to harrass me!

[wde_bdy]

All well and good restricting "public" access to the database, my own feeling for it is though most of the dodgy characters looking stuff up have direct access or know someone who has. For example, its being mentioned a few times that a couple of people on these very forums can look stuff up for people (hit and run situations, suspicious cars hanging around etc). Not saying they are dodgy at all, but think who else has access through thier work?

Callum

[slighty_sykotic]

$&#$%, thats bad news for me.

At work, caltex, it is one of the VERY few tools we have to try and stop drive off thefts. I've sat in front of the screen for hours before trying different combonations of the few letters/numbers that we managed to see as they drove off.

And its recovered a few vechicles too. And now they are gonig to take that from us.

--Sykotic

[filbit]

yeah.. there seems to be a lot of outrage over the access but very few actual instances of abuse. I've had a motochek account for years and had to provide a sh*tload of details to get that.
Similarly, you have to provide photo ID at a postshop to get the information.
Any car which is checked via this system is flagged on the national database, so if anything did happen to it LTNZ/ Police should be able to tell you who accessed the info, whether it was an individual or a commercial entity.
I once checked a scooter outside my house that I thought was stolen. When I rang up to report it to the Police, they already knew that I had run a search (5 minutes beforehand)

[Dell'Orto]

Any car which is checked via this system is flagged on the national database, so if anything did happen to it LTNZ/ Police should be able to tell you who accessed the info, whether it was an individual or a commercial entity.

They can, but they wont, as its private information